Re: Linux Kernel CIFS Vulnerability

[Eugene Teo <eugeneteo () kernel sg>]

Hi Andreas,

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Andreas Bogk <andreas () andreas org> wrote:
> Eugene Teo schrieb:
> > Btw, Linux distributors only send out an advisory if they have fixed
> > something. As for the CIFS vulnerability, as Marcus has mentioned, a
> > fix is still being worked on. You can keep track of the progress here:
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/1620/focus=1629
>
> I take back what I said about the vendors, this seems to be a reasonable
> way to handle the issue.  I'm still shaking my head about the kernel

Thanks.

> maintainers, though.

I have seen genuine cases where some developers themselves do not know
the security consequences of the bugs they fixed. But of course, I
have also seen the very obvious ones that were fixed silently. Sadly,
it is not an easy problem to solve, but the situation can improve[1].

[1]http://oss-security.openwall.org/wiki/mailing-lists/oss-security

Eugene
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